When I started working for the United Business Exchange in 2000, I often wondered about the magnitude of trades I would see…would I see huge transactions? Would I see entire buildings traded? Would I see manufacturers trading huge amounts of freshly created goods? Would my clients barter for things like vacations to Europe? Within a [...]
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My Experience Starting a Barter Exchange
In the last ten years I have participated in the start up of three different exchanges, one of which started from absolute zero. The first time I started a barter exchange, the exchange had somewhere around 25 members and no one was running it full time. I received very little training. The owners of the [...]
Why Start a Barter Exchange?
Now is the perfect time to start and run your own barter exchange… let me explain why. Lines of Credit – What does this have to do with a barter exchange? To the bold barter exchange owner, his business of barter can assist businesses and individuals in ways banks and the community can’t, namely in [...]
A Word on Christmas Trade Shows
My first introduction to the barter industry was as a sales person for a local exchange, United Business Exchange. I was trained as a sales person while I was working in another branch of the company doing networking groups for business owners, but fell in love with the idea of trade exchanges and the power [...]
